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The passing of Tom Lupo

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GREEN SEA Mr. Thomas Eldridge Lupo, age 87, died Friday evening, January 2, 2009, at his home following an illness. Born April 13, 1921, in Green Sea, SC, he was the son of the late Cornie Anderson Lupo and the late Mollie Rouse Lupo.Mr. Lupo was a pre-war Clemson Cadet, but left after one year to fulfill his patriotic calling of enlisting in the United States Army during WW II. He was a Sergeant in the 860th Engineering Aviation Battalion in the South Pacific Theatre and Golden Gloves Champion. During his three and a half year tour he operated heavy equipment in the construction of temporary airstrips as our troops advanced.Following his tour in the Army Mr. Lupo owned and operated Lupo Construction, an excavation business that built many irrigation canals, ponds and golf courses in Marion and Horry counties. Mr. Lupo always found time though to indulge his passion of racing. In 1956 he started in the field for the Southern 500, and went on to become Track Champion at RAMBI Raceway in 1964, and three time track champion in 1965.Mr. Lupo was an avid golfer and tennis player, winning many trophies, and a Master Mason with the Loris Blue Lodge #205 AFM. As a member or Green Sea Baptist Church, he was not only a parishioner but served as a Deacon and Sunday School Teacher.Survivors include his loving wife of 59 years: Carolyn Carter Lupo of the home; one daughter: Tommie Lupo Gautsch and husband Bill of Greenville, SC; one son: Trent Lupo of Green Sea, SC; three grandchildren: Noel Posey, Yon Gautsch, and Katherine Gautsch; one great-granddaughter: Caroline Posey; Two brothers: Cornie Lupo of Green Sea, SC, and Ted Lupo of Fork, SC; and three sisters: Lavenia Hucks of Columbia, SC, Beth Squires of Aynor, SC, and Grace Floyd of Florida.Mr. Lupo was predeceased by brothers Eugene and Wyman Lupo, and a sister Lucille Hunsucker.Funeral services will be 2:00 p.m. Monday, January 5, 2009, at Green Sea Baptist Church with committal services following in Green Sea Cemetery. Pastor Tim Nugent will officiate. Memorials may be made to the Green Sea Baptist Church Building Fund, 1241 Green Sea Rd., Green Sea, SC 29545.
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Sam McQuagg 1937-2009

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It has been a tough past few weeks/ months for racing pioneers. It is very sad every time we lose one of these guys.

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Did you read..or hear the article witten by Robert Winetraub . The tiltle is "Gentleman Stop Your Engines". Here it is...I copied it from Slate.com. He's so wrong about several things. To people like this I say.TURN THE CHANNEL IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT!!!Gentlemen, Stop Your EnginesA NASCAR fan makes the case to euthanize stock-car racing.By Robert WeintraubPosted Monday, Dec. 15, 2008, at 12:27 PM ETNASCAR trackAs the proud owner of a Honda and a Toyota, I've been following the to-bail-or-not-to-bail dance between the federal government and the Big Three automakers from a slight reserve. Forgive me, but as I've worked as a producer on a television show about NASCAR and written lots of articles about the sport in recent years, I'm most concerned about the fate of Jimmie Johnson and Dale Earnhardt Jr. Given the brutal financial climate, I should, out of pure self-interest, support whatever measures will preserve NASCAR. Nevertheless, I can't help but think that Detroit's version of the Troubles is the right time to put the sport out of its misery.PRINTDISCUSSE-MAILRSSRECOMMEND...SINGLE PAGEYahoo! Buzz FacebookMySpace Mixx Digg Reddit del.icio.us Furl Ma.gnolia SphereStumbleUponCLOSEI don't recommend euthanizing NASCAR lightly. This is the sport that gave us sporting icons like Dale Earnhardt, Cale Yarborough, and the King, Richard Petty. I appreciate NASCAR's cutthroat competition, consider it a major sport, and think of the drivers as world-class athletes. But let's face factseven if Ford, GM, and Chrysler get the cash they want from the taxpayers, they are going to have to pull back heaps of sponsorship dough from stock-car racing. Brian France, the CEO of NASCAR and grand pooh-bah of the sport, wrote a letter to Congress lobbying for the bailout, but that won't be nearly enough to win favor with the automakers, who will be slashing costs with a band saw, not a scalpel.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Related in SlateEliot Spitzer argued that the Big Three should be forced to compete against each other for bailout money. Last year, Charles Duhigg explained what NASCAR can teach us about business. Back in 1998, Seth Stevenson filed a dispatch from the GM Goodwrench Service Plus 400, and in 2003 Mike Shropshire argued that you should never, ever attend a NASCAR race.The Big Three and NASCAR have a symbiotic, deeply intertwined relationship. The adage "Win on Sunday, sell on Monday" has defined the way Detroit views NASCARas an extension of its core business. Roughly 75 percent of Sprint Cup teamsNASCAR's top divisiondrive American brands (the rest are with Toyota), and that percentage increases further down the NASCAR ladder. Beyond outfitting the race teams with chassis and souped-up engines, Ford, GM, and Chrysler provide manpower, technical support, andthe plasma that courses through the sport's veinssponsorship: at the tracks, at media/marketing events, and everywhere else that NASCAR touches down. There is a simple cause-and-effect in the automaker/motorsports relationship. Poll after poll shows that there's a huge overlap between racing fans and buyers of American cars. Both tend to be fiercely loyal to preferred brands, which is a big reason why NASCAR shot to the top of the sporting food chain not so long ago.It also stands to reason, then, that as the economy has gone down the toilet, the NASCAR bubble would be one of the first in the sports world to burst. As fewer and fewer domestic autos have sold, interest in NASCAR has declined as well. Meanwhile, the economic crisis has buffeted stock-car racing beyond the travails of the Big Three. According to AdAge, 12 of the sport's 42 full-time rides lack a sponsor with the Daytona 500, the traditional circuit-opener, just two months away. Mergers and cutbacks are the talk of pit road. Race teams have pink-slipped seemingly half of Mooresville, N.C., the home to the majority of the teams. The carnage has totaled roughly 1,000 employees, with many more bracing for the inevitable. Someone who still has a jobfor nowwith a smaller-level race team put it to me simply: "We're fucked."It would be one thing if NASCAR were exceptionally strong and this were merely a cyclone to be ridden out in a basement somewhere. But the sport has been leaking oil for some time. Attendance at races dropped drastically in 2008 (in large part because steep gas prices this summer curtailed the RV armada that follows the circuit), and TV ratings declined for the third straight year. The season-ending "Chase" has failed to provide fireworks or closureif not for the BCS, it would be the worst playoff system in sports. There's also a growing disconnect between racing and its hardcore fan base that began when the Frances stripped races from traditional tracks in Rockingham, N.C., and Darlington, S.C., in favor of places like Kansas and Las Vegas. And the most visible part of NASCAR, the driver corps, has morphed from a crew of heroic-yet-relatable, older, mostly mustachioed hell-raisers to an interchangeable posse of corporate-ready drones fresh out of driver's ed.Consider Jimmie Johnson, the three-time Sprint Cup champion. Superbly talented, handsome, friendly, and always ready to pump the sponsors, he has received a lukewarm embrace from fans who prefer old-school types like Tony Stewart and Earnhardt Jr. The Tim Duncan of NASCAR, Johnson is excellent but dull. That would be OK if there were enough Kobes and LeBrons to make up for the champ's lack of luster. But Junior is an average driver living off his last name, Stewart can't find Victory Lane and is about to embark on a risky venture owning and fronting his own team (he couldn't have picked a worse year for that), and the restfeh. Drivers like David Ragan and Denny Hamlin are strong up-and-coming talents, but they bring very little oomph.Share this article on DiggBuzz up!Share this article on BuzzBut NASCAR's biggest problem isn't fixable with a couple of sexy drivers or a breathless season finale in Miami. The sport can't escape the fact that the internal combustion engine and fossil fuels are technologies on a steep downslope. With hybrids and electrics on the way in, it's hard to see where gas-guzzling, emission-belching stock cars fit in. Unlike the Indy Racing League and Formula 1 (open-wheel racing circuits famous for the Indy 500 and the Monaco Grand Prix, respectively), NASCAR has yet to implement alternative-fuel programshell, it only switched to unleaded gasoline last season! Open-wheel racing isn't immune from the economic turmoil (Honda recently announced it was dropping out of F1), but it stands a better chance at survival. Formula 1 and the Indy crowd run machines that are less cars than science experiments, highly engineered equipment that can and will adapt easily to new technologies. Stock cars are just tricked-out Dodges and Chevysyou know, the ones that nobody's buying anymore.During NASCAR's glory years in the 1990s and early 2000s, gas was cheap, we could kid ourselves into believing it was plentiful, and those who pointed out the connection between CO2 and global warming were easily shouted down. The Hummer went from obscure military hardware to pop culture icon. But then Al Gore made a documentary, and politicians started talking about the folly of importing oil from "countries that don't like us very much." In 20 years, are we going to look back and shake our head in wonder that we let such a wasteful, environmentally disastrous "sport" take place?Or, if you prefer cold-blooded business calculations to tree-huggery, examine the situation from the Big Three's point of view. The automakers' CEOs have already been reamed for flying private jets to D.C. while their companies wither. If the bailout does come through, making a huge expenditure on a diversion like NASCAR would be a jet-style PR disaster. Congress wants those dollars to go toward renewable-energy technology, not mammoth ad displays in the Talladega Speedway infield.Continuing to fund stock-car racing would be a sign that Detroit simply cannot function in the new century. When and if U.S. automakers come up with a better alternative to their outmoded product, I'll be all for getting them out to racetracks to trade a little paint. But there is an unshakeable anachronistic whiff to NASCAR these days. Like the saber-toothed tiger and the cassette tape, stock cars had their timebut that time is now past. Yes, it flamed out quickly, but that's how Neil Young says it should happen. Detroit's nightmare is an opportunity for NASCAR to do the right thing and suspend operations. Once it goes, we'll probably wonder why it ever existed in the first place

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Go run at least 100 laps somewhere, then we'll talk.

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In today's version....I see the same thing...when I'm awake.

Christmas Makes me Cry

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Wo! Great song. You're right Pastor Ken...that pretty much says it all.

Christmas Memories

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I have many form my childhood, but I think the ones that I now remember as most special are from later in life. Having a child to share Christmas with makes them special. Fortunatley I was raised in a houeshold where the true meaning of Christmas was taught and that alone makes them all very special. But what I miss the most are Christmas mornings with my father. He always got up very early and starting prepaing a huge breakfast. Other family members and neighbors often stopped by to visit and get in on those wonderful breakfast meals of country ham, sausage, tenderoin, bacon, eggs, bisquits, and gravy. He passed away in 1999 and I miss him very much.

Buckingham Wins NeSmith Chevrolet DLMS World Championship Race At East Bay

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TAMPA, FL Shanon Buckingham of Morristown, TN posted the biggest win of his career on Saturday night by driving his Rusty Wallace Toyota Bloomquist Race Car to victory in the 4th Annual NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series World Championship at East Bay Raceway Park and picking up the $10,000 top prize.Buckingham passed early race leader Rodney Melvin of Benton, IL in lapped traffic on lap 45, and then dodged a bullet on a lap 50 restart when he was spun out by Stacey Roberts of Sylvester, GA in turn one. The caution was charged to Roberts, and Buckingham was put back in the lead for the restart to lead the entire second half of the race.Buckingham took the checkered flag by six car-lengths over Melvin, who finished second in the Thomason Engines Rayburn.Other than being spun out on that restart, everything went well tonight, and this is the first $10,000-to-win race Ive ever won, Buckingham said. Melvin was faster than I was at the start of the race, but Scott (Bloomquist) told me before the race that as the track took more rubber, our car would get faster.Dennis Erb Jr. of Carpentersville, IL started tenth, but worked his way through the field and battled with his teammate Melvin for the second spot during the second half of the race. Erb had to settle for third in the Thomason Engines Rayburn. Tim McCreadie of Waterloo, NY made a late-race charge to finish fourth in the Miller Lite Rocket.Local favorite Josh Peacock of Dover, FL was fifth in the Peacock Farms Warrior, and Phillip Cobb of Riverview, FL finished sixth in the Coastal Trucking GRT. Anthony White of Clinton, TN took the seventh spot in the Stone Plus DWB, and Bryan Bernhardt of Clearwater, FL drove the B&B Precision Mowers Rocket to an eighth-place finish.Larry Boutwell of Baker, FL finished ninth in the McLeod Construction Rocket, and Jeff Mathews of Seffner, FL rounded out the top ten in the Vasser Cord Warrior. The top seven cars finished on the lead lap, and 13 of the 26 cars that started the race were still running when the checkered flag fell on lap 100.Melvin took the lead at the start of the race from the pole position, and was looking for a clean sweep of the event after out-timing the 63 entrants for the race during time trials with a lap around the 1/3-mile clay oval in 16.079 seconds, and then winning the first 15-lap heat race on Friday night.Buckingham grabbed the second spot from his third starting hole at the start followed by Roberts, White, and 2006 race winner Randy Korte of Highland, IL in the Terry Eaglin Motorsports Rocket. Korte passed White for the fourth spot on the second lap. By the fifth lap, Melvin had pulled out to a half-straightaway lead over Buckingham.Melvin began to encounter lapped traffic by the ninth lap, but a caution flag slowed the field on lap 18 when Frank Ingram of Woodstock, GA stalled the Dixon Hauling and Grading Rocket in turn two.Melvin led Buckingham, Roberts in the Sunbelt Ford Rocket, Korte, Cobb, White, Erb, Ross Bailes of Blacksburg, SC in the Felony Farms Mastersbilt, Peacock, and Boutwell down for the first double-file restart in the history of the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series. Erb used the double-file restart to his advantage, passing White for the sixth spot.Cobb got by Korte for the fourth spot on lap 19, and Erb dropped Korte back to the sixth spot on lap 20. Melvin caught lapped traffic on lap 29, and by lap 32, Buckingham and Roberts closed in to challenge for the lead. Roberts stepped to the outside on lap 35 to challenge Buckingham for second. Buckingham was able to hold the spot, but Melvin had opened up a six car-length lead.Erb was able to pass Cobb for the fourth spot on lap 36, and Korte came back to life by passing Cobb for the fifth position on lap 42. Buckingham closed on Melvin again while the leader worked lapped traffic.On lap 45, Buckingham got to the inside of Melvin coming off the second turn and the lead duo raced side-by-side down the backstretch. Buckingham had the preferred line going into turn three, and was able to grab the lead coming off the fourth turn.Jeff Fields of Aragon, GA spun the J&J Transport Mastersbilt in turn four on lap 50 to bring out the caution flag. Melvin chose the outside groove for the restart, which put the third place car of Roberts on the inside behind Buckingham, who restarted in a row by himself.When the green flag came out, Roberts got into the back of Buckingham in turn one, and the leader spun. With his car sitting backwards in the middle of the race track, the entire field went to both his inside and outside, and somehow missed Buckingham without make any contact. Officials charged Roberts with the caution flag, sent him to the back of the pack, and reinstated Buckingham on the point.Erb moved up to the third spot for the restart, and passed Melvin for second when the green flag came back out. Matthew Turner of Dawsonville, GA made a big move from ninth to seventh on the restart, and two-time NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series National Champion David Gentry of Lewisburg, TN came from 12th to eighth on the restart.By lap 58, Buckingham had pulled out to a full straightaway lead over Erb, Melvin, Korte, Cobb, Boutwell, and Peacock. Korte dropped out of the fourth spot on lap 69 when he stalled in turn one to bring out the caution flag. Melvin was able to retake the second spot on the restart by passing Erb. Peacock got around Cobb to take over the fifth spot.Roberts was charging back through the pack, and was in the top ten by lap 75. Turner was also making some good moves, and was driving the race of his life, riding in the sixth spot. McCreadie was also moving up through the pack, moving into the top five by lap 77. Roberts began to challenge Turner for the sixth spot by lap 80.Roberts charged a little too hard in turn one on lap 81, spinning Turner out, and collecting several other cars. When the dust cleared, Turners Turner Excavating DWB was destroyed and out for the evening, earning him the Dominator Race Products Hard Luck Award. Officials parked Roberts for the night.Buckingham led Melvin, Erb, Peacock, McCreadie, Gentry, Cobb, Bernhardt, Mathews, and White down for the restart. Gentry drove his Pogue Body Shop GRT by McCreadie for the fifth spot on lap 82, and Boutwell raced his way back into the top ten on lap 86. With ten laps to go, Buckingham had pulled out to a ten car-length lead over Melvin.Gentry pulled up from the fifth spot and stalled on lap 95 to bring out the caution flag. In the six lap dash to the finish, the only driver able to make a move for position was McCreadie, who jumped to the outside to pass Peacock for the fourth spot coming off the fourth turn after the restart. Buckingham drove under the checkered flag with a six car-length advantage over Melvin.The 2008 NeSmith Chevrolet Sunoco Race Fuels Rookie of the year Scott Knowles of Lanett, AL was the Hard Charger of the Race after starting his All-Star Graphics Warrior 26th and finishing 12th. Peacock took the Racecar Engineering 5th-Place Award, Bernhardt won the Racecar Engineering 8th-Place Award, Boutwell grabbed the Maximum Signs 9th-Place Award, and Mathews was the Old 29 Golf Carts 10th-Place Award winner.In preliminary action, Roberts, Buckingham, White, Korte and Cobb joined Melvin as heat race winners on Friday night. On Saturday night, Shan Smith of Dade City, FL put on a spectacular performance in the first 20-lap B-Main by coming from the 18th and last starting spot to win driving the Seckman Fire Sprinklers TNT. Billy Faust of Highland, IL won the second 20-lap B-Main in the Kehrer Brothers Roofing Rocket.The next event for the NeSmith Chevrolet Dirt Late Model Series will be the 2009 National Tour season opener on January 3-4 as a part of the 18th Annual Ice Bowl at Talladega Short Track in Eastaboga, AL.OFFICIAL RESULTS OF THE NeSMITH CHEVROLET DLMS WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP RACE AT EAST BAY RACEWAY PARK IN TAMPA, FL ON 12/12-13/08:POS STRT CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN LAPS $ WON1. 3 50 Shannon Buckingham Morristown, TN 100 $10,0002. 1 27 Rodney Melvin Benton, IL 100 $5,0003. 10 28 Dennis Erb Jr. Carpentersville, IL 100 $3,0004. 13 102 Tim McCreadie Waterloo, NY 100 $2,0005. 8 21 Josh Peacock Dover, FL 100 $1,7506. 6 32 Phillip Cobb Riverview, FL 100 $1,5007. 4 2 Anthony White Clinton, TN 100 $1,3008. 14 B69 Bryan Bernhardt Clearwater, FL 99 $1,2009. 9 58 Larry Boutwell Baker, FL 99 $1,10010. 17 9 Jeff Mathews Seffner, FL 99 $1,00011. 15 16 Jeff Fields Aragon, GA 98 $80012. 26 66k Scott Knowles Lanett, AL 97 $70013. 18 P1 Wallace Peacock Dover, FL 97 $60014. 11 11g David Gentry Lewisburg, TN 95 $50015. 12 10 Matthew Turner Dawsonville, GA 80 $45016. 2 11 Stacey Roberts Sylvester, GA 80 $44017. 19 17ss Shan Smith Dade City, FL 78 $43018. 7 87 Ross Bailes Blacksburg, SC 77 $42019. 5 69 Randy Korte Highland, IL 72 $40020. 22 21b Royce Bray Hull, GA 69 $40021. 21 1g Ronnie Johnson Chattanooga, TN 55 $40022. 16 27f Jeff Fortner Vidalia, GA 55 $40023. 20 92 Billy Faust Highland, IL 47 $40024. 24 81c Kevin Cole Benton, IL 35 $40025. 23 F9 Frank Ingram Woodstock, GA 16 $40026. 25 38c Chip Brindle Chatsworth, GA 16 $400ENTRIES: 63FAST QUALIFIER: Melvin, 16.079 SecondsPROVISIONALS: Brindle and KnowlesLEAD CHANGES: 1LAP LEADERS: Melvin, 1-44; Buckingham, 45-100LAPS LED: Buckingham, 56; Melvin, 44HARD CHARGER OF THE RACE: Knowles (started 26th and finished 12th)DOMINATOR RACE PRODUCTS HARD LUCK AWARD: TurnerRACE CAR ENGINEERING 5TH-PLACE AWARD: PeacockRACE CAR ENGINEERING 8TH-PLACE AWARD: BernhardtMAXIMUM SIGNS 9TH-PLACE AWARD: BoutwellOLD 29 GOLF CARTS 10TH-PLACE AWARD: MathewsCAUTIONS: 7TIME OF THE RACE: 56 Minutes and 50.239 SecondsQUALIFYING:GROUP 1:POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME1 92b Billy Faust Highland, IL Rocket 16.421 16.250 16.2502 12 Hunter Peacock Macon, GA Bullet 16.497 16.550 16.4973 11r Stacey Roberts Sylvester, GA Rocket 16.878 16.662 16.6624 21p Josh Peacock Dover, FL Warrior 17.019 16.703 16.7035 21b Royce Bray Hull, GA Warrior 16.746 17.660 16.7466 121 Benji Cole Canon, GA DWB 16.840 17.418 16.8407 B69 Bryan Bernhardt Clearwater, FL Rocket 17.147 17.431 17.1478 11 Steven Roberts Sylvester, GA Rocket 17.158 17.284 17.1589 44 Stephen Rogers Knoxville, TN Warrior 17.502 17.178 17.17810 10b Scott Riggs Harrisburg, IL Forward 17.472 18.495 17.47211 8m Matt Miller Tampa, FL Rocket 17.671 18.375 17.671GROUP 2:POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME1 P1 Wallace Peacock Dover, FL TnT 16.789 17.543 16.7892 32 Phillip Cobb Riverview, FL GRT 17.667 16.943 16.9433 10 Matthew Turner Dawsonville, GA DWB 16.971 17.361 16.9714 8s Steve Miller Tampa, FL Rocket 46.178 16.994 16.9945 9w Jimmy Waldrop Seffner, FL Rocket 17.091 19.414 17.0916 79 Jason Kimball Brooksville, FL Rocket 17.237 17.601 17.2377 2 Shane Hitt Buckhannon, WV Rocket 17.847 17.380 17.3808 33c Eric Cooley Fulton, MS Mastersbilt 18.093 17.547 17.5479 22x Danny Peoples Margaret, AL Warrior 17.561 17.559 17.55910 88 David Polen Jr. Tampa, FL Rocket 17.616 33.128 17.61611 24w Dennis Williams Zephyrhills, FL Rayburn 19.014 19.343 19.014GROUP 3:POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME1 2w Anthony White Clinton, TN DWB 16.615 16.455 16.4552 28e Dennis Erb Jr. Carpentersville, IL Rayburn 16.755 16.606 16.6063 27 Jeff Fortner Vidalia, GA Rocket 16.727 17.010 16.7274 87 Derrick Rainey Powder Springs, GA Warrior 16.911 17.000 16.9115 105 Dave Schmauss Tampa, FL Warrior 16.921 17.265 16.9216 16b Dan Brewer Wytheville, VA Barry Wright 17.508 17.029 17.0297 28 Brandon Overton Appling, GA GRT 17.442 17.227 17.2278 81c Kevin Cole Benton, IL Pierce 17.261 17.276 17.2619 10x Jake Knowles Tyrone, GA Rocket 17.509 17.358 17.35810 49 Jonathan Davenport Blairsville, GA Rayburn 17.753 17.640 17.64011 59 Aaron Heck Mount Vernon, IL Rayburn 17.723 17.846 17.723GROUP 4:POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME1 27m Rodney Melvin Benton, IL Rayburn 16.276 16.079 16.0792 102 Tim McCreadie Waterloo, NY Rocket 16.572 17.160 16.5723 87L Ross Bailes Blacksburg, SC Mastersbilt 17.510 16.900 16.9004 38c Chip Brindle Chatsworth, GA Mastersbilt 17.275 16.982 16.9825 92k Brant Kehrer New Memphis, IL Rocket 17.836 17.429 17.4296 61 Caleb Ashby Cunningham, TN PPM 18.240 17.456 17.4567 1g Ronnie Johnson Chattanooga, TN Warrior 17.594 17.622 17.5948 11w Randy Weaver Crossville, TN PPM 17.798 17.914 17.7989 21m Ben McCreary Baldwyn, MS Mastersbilt 18.213 17.931 17.93110 18L Jason Riggs Harrisburg, IL Rocket 18.710 18.240 18.240GROUP 5:POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME1 69 Randy Korte Highland, IL Rocket 16.661 16.638 16.6382 9 Jeff Mathews Seffner, FL Warrior 16.708 16.915 16.7083 11g David Gentry Lewisburg, TN GRT 16.860 16.823 16.8234 11h Doug Horton Bruceton Mills, WV Warrior 17.968 17.183 17.1835 22p Travis Pennington Winston, GA GRT 18.302 17.287 17.2876 22w William Thomas Phenix City, AL Scorpion 17.633 17.349 17.3497 92s Matt Santel New Memphis, IL Rocket 17.446 17.464 17.4468 17ss Shan Smith Dade City, FL TnT 17.770 17.656 17.6569 22 Jason Wilson Margaret, AL Warrior 18.411 17.800 17.80010 41v Travis Varnadore Dover, FL Rayburn 17.808 18.051 17.808GROUP 6:POS CAR # DRIVER HOMETOWN CHASSIS LAP 1 LAP 2 TIME1 50 Shanon Buckingham Morristown, TN Bloomquist 16.604 16.317 16.3172 66k Scott Knowles Lanett, AL Warrior 16.952 17.289 16.9523 16 Jeff Fields Aragon, GA Mastersbilt 17.155 17.057 17.0574 12c Jon Callaway Herrington, DE Rocket 17.404 17.187 17.1875 58 Larry Boutwell Baker, FL Rocket 17.719 17.226 17.2266 2x Nick Lyons Centrailia, IL Forward 17.483 17.564 17.4837 F9 Frank Ingram Woodstock, GA Rocket 17.552 17.769 17.5528 20u Bruce Unterbrink Greenville, IL Rocket 18.152 17.553 17.5539 21 Rusty Hoge Ooltewah, TN GRT 18.895 17.932 17.93210 91 Guy Robinson Rockmart, GA TnT 18.691 NT 18.691HEAT RACES (15 Laps Top 3 Transfer To Main Event):1ST HEAT: 1. Melvin; 2. Bailes; 3. McCreadie; 4. Brindle; 5. Johnson; 6. McCreary; 7. Ashby; 8. Kehrer; 9. Weaver; 10. J. Riggs.2ND HEAT: 1. Stacey Roberts; 2. J. Peacock; 3. Bernhardt; 4. Bray; 5. B. Cole; 6. Stephen Roberts; 7. Faust; 8. S. Riggs; 9. H. Peacock; 10. Rogers; 11. M. Miller.3RD HEAT: 1. Buckingham; 2. Boutwell; 3. Fields; 4. Ingram; 5. Lyons; 6. Hoge; 7. S. Knowles; 8. Callaway; 9. Unterbrink; 10. Robinson.4TH HEAT: 1. White; 2. Erb; 3. Fortner; 4. K. Cole; 5. Rainey; 6. Brewer; 7. Heck; 8. Davenport; 9. Overton; 10. J. Knowles; 11. Schmauss.5TH HEAT: 1. Korte; 2. Gentry; 3. Mathews; 4. Horton; 5. Thomas; 6. Pennington; 7. Wilson; 8. Varnadore; 9. Santel; 10. Smith.6TH HEAT: 1. Cobb; 2. Turner; 3. W. Peacock; 4. S. Miller; 5. Polen; 6. Cooley; 7. Kimball; 8. Williams; 9. Hitt; 10. Peoples; 11. Waldrop.B-MAINS (20 Laps Top 3 Transfer To Main Event):1ST B-MAIN: 1. Smith; 2. Johnson; 3. Ingram; 4. Thomas; 5. Lyons; 6. McCreary; 7. Hoge; 8. Horton; 9. Callaway; 10. Robinson; 11. J. Riggs; 12. Ashby; 13. Pennington; 14. Brindle; 15. Knowles; 16. Varnadore; 17. Santel; 18. Kehrer; 19. Wilson DNS; 20. Weaver DNS; 21. Unterbrink DNS.2ND B-MAIN: 1. Faust; 2. Bray; 3. Cole; 4. Rainey; 5. Overton; 6. Schmauss; 7. Williams; 8. Stephen Roberts; 9. Kimball; 10. H. Peacock; 11. Waldrop; 12. Pollen; 13. Cole; 14. J. Knowles; 15. Heck; 16. S. Miller; 17. Brewer; 18. Cooley; 19. S. Riggs DNS; 20. Davenport DNS; 21. Hitt DNS; 22. Rogers DNS; 23. Peoples DNS; 24. M. Miller DNS.
updated by @jeff-gilder: 12/03/16 05:48:04PM

NEW "Rainbow Row," Painting!

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Mark,That is an awesome painting. Man, your are very talented! Thanks for sharing your work with us.Jeff

Jayne Mansfield

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I've been searching to find the dates she was there. I'm pretty sure it was 1962 the year Rex petted her Cheetah....and he won the race in a 1961 Chevy. I can't find any info about her being there in 60.